It feels like 1968 to me.
The Tet Offensive. George Wallace. The John Birch Society. The civil rights riots and slayings, Robert Kennedy and M L King, Black Panthers, Muhammad Ali. Richard Nixon. There is the same 'smell' in the air.I was in my second year as a computer programmer, on an English ICT-1902 (later ICL) computer, having arrived in New Zealand in the first Australian Vietnam war draft of 1965 for twenty year olds. Perhaps I was also teaching and lecturing in Cobol, COBOL-68, about then too - shudder.
The ICT-1902 had four tape drives, 13k words of memory, paper tape and card readers, and filled a room of over 200 sq m
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"If you Remember the Sixties, you didn't really Live the Sixties."
It's as if it was Written for Generation Z.
Cheap shot, Mic - for the larger audience Mic is suggesting anyone who came out the 60s was a drugged out hippie, burned out on LSD. It is one of thousand and one false stereotypes people liars and haters propagate.
Cheap shot, Mic - for the larger audience Mic is suggesting anyone who came out the 60s was a drugged out hippie, burned out on LSD. It is one of thousand and one false stereotypes people liars and haters propagate.
Fiddlesticks
You give me too much credit
I put the phrase in quotes.
It was coined in the late 70s-ish by folks nostalgic for their Counter-Culture heyday.
Much as a Generation before recalled The Roaring Twenties
You as usual make crass over generalizations and utilized name calling to cover up your deficiencies.
Mic - your whole agenda is one of slurs and innuendos, prettied up with movie links.
Prettying things up with something Relevant to the Blog Topic ...
Welcome to the Hotel California.....
"We haven't had that Spirit here since 1969."
True That
The U.S. Civil War killed more Americans t
... than All other wars Combined.
We're it not for the losses of WWII, the numbers wouldn't even be Close.
"There is no hatred to equal that of brother for brother."